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Engineering Leader’s blog

Learn from some of the most accomplished engineering leaders. This blog brings you key insights from fellow engineering managers and tech leaders to level-up your management skills and to take your developer team to the next level.

This Is How We Went Fully Remote In One Day

by Gábor Zöld / April 8, 2020

The COVID-19 is everywhere, and you should be asking yourself what to do to protect your team and your company. I'll show you how we, as a software development agency handled the outbreak, the quarantine, and the started working remotely from one day to the next. I'll give you tips that'll keep your team safe and productive.
How to Win Your First 100 Days as an Engineering Leader at a New Company

by Gábor Zöld / March 25, 2020

Level-up Engineering Podcast #12

You're moving to a new company as an engineering leader? You're just assuming the role for the first time? You've been at it for a while and wondering if you're doing all right? Check out this interview with Steven McCord, Senior Vice President of Technology at WhyHotel, where he shares his best tips and tricks on how to get started as an engineering leader, and become successful at it over your first 100 days.

Software Development Trends 2020: Latest Research and Data

by Gábor Zöld / March 18, 2020

State of Software Development 2020 report

Level-up Engineering Podcast #13

Software development trends come and go rapidly. A tool or framework used today might be obsolete tomorrow. We take a snapshot of the industry every year, to see how it has evolved, and make an educated guess as to where it’s headed.

The 2020 report gives you the data you need to benchmark your activities against other survey participants, get insight from others walking in your shoes to improve your developer team and keep up with the industry.

Keep Up with Technology Trends as a Tech Leader

by Gábor Zöld / January 30, 2020

Keeping up-to-date with the technology trends is absolutely essential for tech leads and engineering managers. Sharpening your managerial skills is just as important if you are to succeed at your job. But how to do it?

In this post we're taking a look at how successful tech leaders stay current with the trends, and what are the best ways to find great content, and the best format to consume them in.

Scaling Distributed Engineering Team: Managing Fast Growth in Remote

by Gábor Zöld / January 8, 2020

Level-up Engineering Podcast #7

How do you scale a distributed engineering team?

It doesn’t involve just hiring more people, but also scaling communication, defining processes, making the culture strong enough and defining the vision, so you can build the new team on a solid foundation. It’s layers upon layers of work with no end. Juan Pablo Buritica, ex-VP of Engineering at Splice has managed it more than once, and explains how he pulled it off in this interview.